Where does “kohtalokas” come from?

kohtalokas (Finnish) comes from Finnish kohtalo, from Finnish -lo, from Finnish -la-i, from Finnish -la, from Proto-Finnic -la — locative suffix.

kohtalokas (Finnish): fateful; fatal

Definitions

  1. fateful; fatal

Ancestry of “kohtalokas”, step by step

kohtalokas traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish kohtalo

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkohtalodestiny, fate
2Finnish-loForms various nouns
3Finnish-la-i
4Finnish-laForms nouns that signify a place, such as an...
5Proto-Finnic-lalocative suffix

via Finnish kas

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkaslook!, oh!, my!, behold!; look
2Finnishkatso!look!
3Finnishkatsoato look, have a look, take a look; to watch; to...
4Proto-Finnickaccodakto look
5Proto-Germanicgātijaną

Words derived from “kohtalokas

Every word from Proto-Finnic -la
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